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Introduction

NEPOMUK - The Social Semantic Desktop - is funded by the European Community
under FP6-027705 IST. The overall project goal is to extend the personal
computer into a collaborative environment, focusing on personal data
management and the provisioning of information, potentially involving
online collaboration by individuals or groups.
The desktop aspect of the project is where
Nepomuk-KDE
comes in:
a freely and widely available platform which contains the NEPOMUK results.

Ontologies

Desktop ontologies define whom a file belongs to, what rating a user assigns
to it and which people are related to the file or contents thereof.
While adding all the semantic metadata is a tedious task, there is a reward
once it is present: Searching for specific information becomes a lot more
accurate and to the point. Nepomuk-KDE uses
Soprano to access
ontologies stored in RDF (resource description format).

Strigi

Strigi
is a search engine which will be present in the upcoming KDE 4.
With the advent of Nepomuk-KDE, Strigi has access to desktop ontologies.
Rapid access to information is one of the goals of this integration,
which is depicted in the following diagram.